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AZRO BUZZELL, OF WEST FAIRLEE, VERMONT.

Letters Patent No. 82,082, dated September 15, 1868.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it known that I, AZRO BUzzELL, of West Fairlee, of the county of Orange, and State of Vermont, have inventefvl new and useful Improvement in Garriage-Springs; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specication, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 denotes a side elevation, and l Figure 2 a. longitudinal section of one of my improved springs and its axleconnrection, the spring being exhibited as connected to a portion of a carriage-body.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the axle-connection.

Figure 4 is a side or front View of it.

The spring in question is composed oi' one long S-spring, A, a short S-spring, O, and a C-spring, B, they being formed and arranged in manner as represented.

There is a pocket, a, at the upper end of the spring A, which receives the eye b at the outer end of the spring B, the said spring B, at its inner end, being bolted to the carriage-frame D. The spring C, at its upper end, is also bolted to the carriage-frame, and, at its.v lowerend, it has a pocket, 0, to receive the eyed of the longest `Sspring, the springs being connected by joint-pins e fgoing through the eyes and pockets.

The springs B and C have no connection between them, except it be the carriage-frame and the spring A, and therefore they are, free to vibrate independently ot' each other, and in the direction of the length of the wagon or carriage-body. They support the spring A, which is arranged so as to vibrate vertically as well as in other directions. i

At its lowest part, the spring A goes through the axle-connection E, which consists of a saddle, f, and two Jokes, g it, formed and arranged as shown in the drawings, and held together by a joint-pin, z'. The saddle rests on thejoint-pin, and the spring is forced down upon the saddle by a cla mp-screw, k, screwed through the upper yoke. The lower yoke is to rest on the axle or the rocker-bar of the carriage, and is to be-fastened thereto by a clasp.

In this way the spring, when connec'ted with the axle or the rocker-bar, becomes pivoted or hinged thereto so as to enable the spring to turn on the axle or rocker-har. This mode of connection of the spring with 'the axle or rocker-bar is very advantageous, particularly when the carriage-wheels may be crossing what are termed water-bars or transverse gullies or grooves in a road.

The compound spring, composed of the three springs formed and arranged as described, and disconnected in other respects than in being jointed together, and having the shorter springs, B C, bolted to the wagon and the carriage-body, causes'the carriage to run with great ease, particularly when going over a road having ruts or transverse gullies or water-bars. Y

I am aware of the wagon-spring represented in the application of E.,T. Jackman for a patent, (the said application having been filed in the Patent Oilice, January 3l, 1861,) such spring consisting simply of two iS-springs and one cz-spring, connected only .at one end of each, there being no connection, except the middle spring A and the wagon-body, between the two-end-springs B O. This enables these latter springs to operate independently of one'another, and to better advantage than they could were they connected by a bar or extension from each of them going from one to the other of them.

I therefore claim my improved arrangement of the three springs A B C, as described, without any connection extending from or aboutfrom the middle of one spring, B, to or about to that of the spring C, the whole being as shown in the drawings. I

AZR() BUZZELL.

Witnesses:

E. P. Gsonen,

FRED. W. FARNHAM. 

